snitch
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Think twice before becoming the snitch that stole Christmas.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025
Those developments convinced Sanders that his work on the snitch scandal was finally, truly over — and it was time to begin putting L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
In 59 other cases, charges were dropped, convictions overturned or sentences reduced because of what Sanders uncovered in the O.C. snitch scandal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
“He told me not to snitch, and so I didn’t. I was just a little kid. And I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing—losing my dad and pop too.”
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
To add to the Stasi effect, the tip line offers snitches anonymity.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025
The longtime Orange County public defender changed local history in 2013 when he presented a judge with evidence that sheriff’s deputies had illegally used jailhouse snitches for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
The emails appear designed to pit federal workers against one other, granting carrots to the snitches and wielding sticks over the silent.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2025
These hazelnut chocolate balls are wrapped in gold foil, which makes them perfect snitches.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
Now, however, though the code of silence is still nominally in place, inmate lips seem looser and officers’ use of snitches more widespread.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
